A Textbook Tragedy

A Textbook Tragedy @ CMW 2008

BACKGROUND/COMPOSITION: This five-member group project recently submitted its freshman album, a brand of thrashy metal with two growly vocalists, both of whom deserve credit for being wonderfully incomprehensible. The record can't demonstrate the quantity of energy they bring to the stage. Grade: 86 Comment: A Textbook Tragedy are...
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A Textbook Tragedy — Intimidator

Plenty of anger is evident on Vancouver's A Textbook Tragedy's second full-length album. Fortunately, the anger takes shape much like that of a Calculating Infinity-era Dillinger Escape Plan. With tech-a-plenty, Intimidator is nothing short of… well… intimidating. Besides the title track — only because of its six-minute time stamp — no song stands...
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A Textbook Tragedy

A Textbook Tragedy Tour

Vancouver metal band A Textbook Tragedy and Saskatchewan's The Holly Springs Disaster will embark on a joint Ontario tour in March. The bands will be joined by Comeback Kid vocalist Andrew Neufeld's Sights & Sounds for the gigs. A Textbook Tragedy are in the U.K. touring in support of last year's Intimidator with Misery Signals and...
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A Textbook Tragedy

Cancer Bats Swoop Through Eastern Canada In April and May

Eastern Canadian hardcore scenesters, get yourselves ready for the mosh pit, because Cancer Bats are coming your way. The Toronto hardcore punk band will play a string of dates in support of their sophomore album, Hail Destroyer, which is due on April 22 through Distort. Cancer Bats are fresh off two performances at the South By Southwest Music...
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A Textbook Tragedy Distort And Intimidate

A Textbook Tragedy's mix of aggressive and technical metal with hardcore energy might be intimidating to the meek, but those aren't the kind of people the Vancouver band want buying their records or coming to their shows anyway. There will be a new record, Intimidator, coming out on March 4 through their new label, Distort Inc. There will be...
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